[Footnote 3185: Peuchet, "Statistique élémentaire de la France" (published in 1805), p.228. According to statements furnished by prefects in the years IX and X, the population is 33,111,962 persons; the annexation of the island of Elbe and of Piedmont adds 1,864,350 Total, 34,976,313.--Pelet de la Lozère, P.203. (Speech by Napoleon to the council of state, February 4, 1804, on the Protestant seminaries of Geneva and Strasbourg, and on the number of Protestants in his states.) "Their population numbers only 3 millions."] [Footnote 3186: Roederer, III., 330 (July 1800): "The First Consul spoke to me about the steps necessary to be taken to prevent the (emigrés) who had been struck off from getting back their possessions, in view of maintaining the interest in the revolution of about 1,200,000 purchasers of national domains. "--Rocquain, "État de la France au 18 Brumaire." (Report by Barbé-Marbois on Morbihan, Finisterre, Ile-et-Vilaine, and Côtes-du-Nord, year IX.) "In every place I have just passed through the proprietors recognize that their existence is attached to that of the First Consul."] [Footnote 3187: Constitution of Frimaire 22, year VIII, art. 94.--Article 93, moreover, declares that "the possessions of the émigrés are irrevocably acquired by the republic."] [Footnote 3188: Law of Floréal 29, year X, title I, article 8. The member also swears "to combat with all the means which justice, reason and the law authorize, every enterprise tending to restore the feudal régime," and, consequently, feudal rights and tithes] [Footnote 3189: Organic Sénatus-consulte, Floreal 28, year XII (18th May 1804). Title VII., art. 53.] [Footnote 3190: Roederer, III., 430-432 (April 4, 1802, May I, 1802): "Defermon remarked to me yesterday, 'This will all go on well as long as the First Consul lives; the day after his death we shall all emigrate.' "--"Every one, from the sailor to the worker, says to himself, 'All this is very well, but will it last?...--This work we undertake, this capital we risk, this house we build, these trees we plant, what will become of them if he dies?"] [Footnote 3191: Ibid., 340. (Words of the First Consul, November 4, 1800.) "Who is the rich man to-day? The buyer of national domains, the contractor. the robber."--These details, above, are provided for me by family narrations and souvenirs.]